Gentlemen and Hardladies, I've just been to my first Anime/Japan Convention, I've delved into the final point of escapism and mingled with social rejects and people who are on the negative side of having a so-called "life"..




AND IT WAS FUCKING GREAT!!! I finally felt at home there I was, cosplaying, speaking wapanese and eating Sushi CAUSE IT'S JAPANESE!!!
But don't worry people! I'm not a narutard or something!
I mean for fucks sake there was only ONE PERSON in the ENTIRE Con who actually recognized my Crazy Ivan Cosplay from Red Alert 2!

So with the formalities out of the way lemme take you on a little trip through the con!



First day we had to wait in line for about one and a half hours to even get in to the damn convention cause the opening show had been delayed AND you had to buy tickets to even see it! Yeah, that's a damn good start on the Convention..

But I did get to meet a Video Game character true to her cosplay! Wearing a brainlessly skimpy battle outfit that made her freeze her ass off while standing in line (which always brings us back to the question why the fuck female fighting game characters NEVER wear any useful protection or any kind of practically applicable outfits!)

Meet Noriko! From the game Heavenly Sword Noriko



_{Yep that's me on the right side! You guessed correctly!}


So after talking with a complete stranger for about 30 minutes we FINALLY got inside the fucking place! And oh god I didn't know the Norwegian population contained that many weirdos!
Naruto cosplays, cute girls in lolita and/or maid costumes as well as a fair share NORMAL people WITHOUT cosplays! What the fuck! What where THEY doing there? Apart from creeping out all the girls ofcourse..




Here's my Conbuddies, the Gasmask and some form of Naruto, didn't I just mention Naruto? Well whatever, he didn't have a costume so he bought one on the fly just so he wouldn't stick out
As was the WHOLE actual case with the gasmask guy who's actually my roomie! He didn't have a ready cosplay so he bought an awesome gasmask JUST AN HOUR BEFORE WE WENT TO THE CONVENTION!! And we put my duster on him as well and he made quite an impression!
But I think about 70% of all the people who made a guess on him went with Pyro from Team Fortress 2
Oh, and it should be added this was my BEST TWO DAYS WITH HIM LIKE, EVURS! CAUSE HE COULDN'T TALK!!!
he did mumble and grumble a lot, finally got pen and paper later on to write what he wanted to say..



This Dante shouldn't be left out since we were four in the gang including him!
What an acid trip of a gathering is that! One Naruto, one weirdo in a duster and a gasmask, one Dante and one Crazy Ivan suicider!



Yeah, should be said also, I said only one guy actually RECOGNIZED my cosplay instantly, a lot of people went "Aah! Terrorist!" or "Al Quaeda!" or just "Watch out! Suicide Bomber!", a fair share of people also went "uuuhh..." pondering and pointing and then recognized the cosplay when I mention the game.

And godDAMN there was a lotta people who wanted to take pictures OF me or even WITH me! I mean it was crazy! I'm sure over 60 people have took pictures of me through the whole con! XD
I mean not to be self centered or anything but DAMN! It gave me a kick the first time and everything, but for there to be so many! I had never in my wildest dreams imagined..
I'm sure the number of people who made comments about it or just laughed and pointed was at least ten times that of how many people took pictures..
_{(The funny thing is that I got so much attention eventhough virtually no one recognized my cosplay)}







We saw people ALL the time, I mean EVERYwhere holding Free Hugs signs, so here's what I decided to do!

The problem was ofcourse that most people actually WANTED a free bomb from me..


Which reminds me! At the entrance before we got into the actual locale they had a weapons check, see they had to mark all the weapons for clearance before people were allowed to take them inside, too bad some of the bigger weapons weren't even allowed, the beforemention Noriko probably had the BEST weapon on the entire con! Damn it looked authentic!
But see when I came in the receptionist-maid just looked at me with a hopeless face and gave a good sigh, cause I had eight items of weaponry to be signed, but she just let me in without bothering to sign them XD







Stormtrooper is stealing mah dynamite! D:


I saw two Vaders on the Con, as well as three Stormtroopers and a Boba Fett.
There was also a lot of Jokers going around, I even saw two female ones..

yeah there was a damn lot of girls cosplaying male characters! Naruto, Sasuke, Renji you name it! And the worst thing is that they all looked pretty good! We are, after all, in the age of anime characters who haven't taken their required amounts of injected testosterone..
Luckily the opposite did NOT happen too much, nothing is worse than seeing a GUY dress up as a GIRL
(but there was one guy who I actually was sure was a girl that cosplayed a lolita girl, coulda just been a trans with a nice fame though! D: )





OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD I SAW A HARUHARA HARUKO!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
I CAN'T BELIEVE THERE WAS SUCH A PRETTY GIRL DOING A HARUKO COSPLAY OMG OMG OMG!!!!!111 *dies*
I JSUT HAD TO PROPOSE!!!!!!!!!!!1111 BEST COSPLAYER EVER!!!!!!!!!11

The fanboy inside just broke all leashes and I ran towards her to get a picture! *____*
we're talking TOTAL drooling fanboy here!

If you haven't noticed "FLCL" is the ONLY thing on my "likes" list in the devID and Haruko is one of the mains from that show!



Ah, I just gotta tell you, eventhough the journal is already incredibly long, the auction they had on the last day was the DEFINITE highlight of the convention!

You could place bids on things to either take them with you home, OR you could place bids on something to see it destroyed by an angry, beardy, kendo-trained samurai swordsman!
I think about 75% of all the things there got destroyed.. we got to see a Hello Kitty plushie cut to pieces and ripped apart, he smashed a watermelon with a big hammer and then smashed one of the remaining pieces on the head of a lady (there was an auction on whether or not to do it XD), and people just went crazy with the bids when a Twilight book came on the bench, yes Twilight as in sparkly vampires, luckily it got burned and ripped in half by the big beardy angryman (and thank god for that!)
He also smashed a few Bleach games, tore the pages out of a collection of exclusive manga books, they smashed a REALLY old computer that even had a floppy drive! (someone actually BOUGHT it for themselves first but then wanted it destroyed)

Ah, one of the things that DIDN'T get destroyed was a collection of yaoi books! Some fangirl paid I think 70 dollars for them, and I respect that! There's a REAL fangirl ya know! One that goes FAR to defend and love her fandom of boy on boy action!


Later in the finishing show they got all the maids up to dance Karamelldansen, the Cookie Monster also came on stage to dance and some crew guy did a REAL Russian Polka dance up front! Looked crazy. Then they had a little contest of who could sound like their cosplayed characters the best, I joined in but ofcourse the Cookie Monster won (he did a good job should be said) but it was more a "who's got the best known character" contest than a voice acting contest"






So then after having a blast with the all the artstands, a lightning course in Japanese and a Sushi meal the guards decided it was about time to do something about the bomb threat and took me away.

It's not every day you get taken away by a Bear/Catgirl that jumps on you yelling "SURPRISE BUTTSECKS!!!" a Inu Yasha and a Gringo..